TechWhiz

Enabling or disabling pagefile can be done very easily in Windows Vista. You should understand that changing the size of the pagefile may change your system performance. Goto ‘Start–>Control Panel’ Make sure ‘Classic view’ is selected. Double Click on ‘System’ to open system properties Click on ‘Advanced System Settings’ in the left pane. Windows Vista

You can enable or disable System Restore for any drive. I have listed down the steps for doing so. Goto ‘Start–>Control Panel’ Make sure ‘Classic view’ is selected. Double Click on ‘System’ to open system properties Click on ‘Advanced System Settings’ in the left pane. Windows Vista will prompt for confirmation. Click on ‘Continue’. Click

Windows Vista’s ‘Shrink Volume’ feature has some serious limitations. Sometimes it will not shrink the drive eventhough you have free space on your drive. This is because there are some system files which has to be moved before you could continue shrinking. I recommend not to try the following steps if you are a beginner

The following steps will guide you to enable or disable system restore in Windows XP. Goto ‘Start–>Control Panel’. Click on ‘Switch to Classic View’ if you are in that mode. Find and double click on ‘System’ to open ‘System Properties’. Click on ‘System Restore’ tab. Check ‘Turn off system restore on all drive’ to disable

Unlike in Windows XP, where hibernation can be enabled or disabled in GUI, you have to do that by command prompt in Windows Vista. Make sure you are running in administrator mode. Type ‘cmd’ in the start menu search box. Press ‘Ctrl+Shift+Enter’. Windows Vista will prompt for your permission. Click ‘Continue’ to run Command Prompt

Mozilla Thunderbird profile contains information about your account. All your emails are stored here by default. I would recommend keeping all important data in a drive other than where Operating System is installed. If you wish to move the profile to other location, please follow the following steps. Make sure Thunderbird is not running. Goto

IMAP settings for Gmail on Mozilla Thunderbird Incoming Server: imap.gmail.com Port: 993 Secure connection: SSL Username: <username>@<yourdomain> (if you are using Gmail for your domain) Username: <username> (if you have an email account on www.gmail.com) Outgoing Server: smtp.gmail.com Port: 587 Security connection: TLS Username: <username>@<yourdomain> (if you are using Gmail for your domain) Username: <username>